Comments on: A List Apart Finds the Holy Grail (of CSS Layout) http://www.chausse.org/2006/01/a-list-apart-finds-the-holy-grail-of-css-layout/ A blog about web technology and culture Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Nick White http://www.chausse.org/2006/01/a-list-apart-finds-the-holy-grail-of-css-layout/#comment-6506 Nick White Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:35:49 +0000 http://www.chausse.org/2006/01/a-list-apart-finds-the-holy-grail-of-css-layout/#comment-6506 This bug with the ALA's Holy Grail has been eating at me to no end. At this point, I don't care about semantics anymore. As of today, they are horribly limiting. The one purpose the web serves me right now is to make me money. And if I can't have a functional layout that is light weight, standards-compliant and designed to my customers' liking, then screw semantics for the time being. Standardization and semantics were intended to improve usability of the web and ensure future backwards-compatibility of code. But, presently, any religious devotion to semantics is limiting designers because of their conviction to comform to quality. If you know of any ways to improve ALA's CSS Holy Grail, I am all ears. You mentioned extra wrappers. You've got my full attention. This bug with the ALA’s Holy Grail has been eating at me to no end. At this point, I don’t care about semantics anymore. As of today, they are horribly limiting. The one purpose the web serves me right now is to make me money. And if I can’t have a functional layout that is light weight, standards-compliant and designed to my customers’ liking, then screw semantics for the time being.

Standardization and semantics were intended to improve usability of the web and ensure future backwards-compatibility of code. But, presently, any religious devotion to semantics is limiting designers because of their conviction to comform to quality.

If you know of any ways to improve ALA’s CSS Holy Grail, I am all ears. You mentioned extra wrappers. You’ve got my full attention.

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